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Dec. 15-21
At church and hear Mr S1ack ....A beautiful sermon and suitable for the season, Advent, the coming of our Lord .... See little Sis; no Jabe yet but she has heard from him and he has not yet gotten a leave of absence, which is the cause of his delay. Mentions having seen several of the Albemarle boys. Sue writes she may be up this week. I do some work, make my dress. Am also poorly. Hear on Sunday of another victory for us over the Yankees, a Battle on the Allegheny at Ghost Mountain on the 13th. Our loss small compared with the Yankees. News from England. She demands the surrender of Mason and Slidell. What is to be the next move I wonder? Conjecture is busy at work; can but hope it may lead to a rupture between Johnathan and John Bull. A letter from Music Hall. Brother Jim is in bed. The servants are better. Mr. Coffman is with them as his company has disbanded. I'm very poorly. On Friday Jabe appears. He got to Rugby on Tuesday. He spends the day with me and is looking much better than when last with us. He has a furlough for 20 days so I hope to see much of him. Saturday Sue and John come ....but John has to leave the next day. He has a right hard time of it. Had hoped Jabe and Sally would have joined us today but they do not come. Hear afterwards they go to brother Jim's as he is thought so poorly. Hear we have had a small fight at a place called Dranesville in the neighborhood of Centerville on Friday 20th in which a small number of our forces were engaged against three or four times their number of the cavalry in which we were considerbly worsted. We hear it is thought as many as a 150 killed and wounded. The loss of the enemy is supposed not to be as large. Hope that estimate may reach us soon.
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